I shipped code I didn't understand when I copy pasted from Stackoverflow before. At a level if it works it works.

Do a quick text search in this comment section for the string "it works". You'll see the same results in basically every HN discussion about LLM coding. "It works."

To me, "It works" is pretty much the lowest possible quality bar for an acceptable creative work product. We should not aspire to "it works." We should not hold ourselves only to the "it works" standard. And, yes, I know that many traditional software companies fail to even meet "it works" for their shipping products.

I don't even know what to say anymore. This has become a deeply unserious industry putting out mountains of junk that barely even meets the "it works" bar, and LLMs are just accelerating this.

I mean, I did that when I was learning how to code. Is this seriously something professional would do? Not the copying part, but the not understanding part.